The temperature on December 31, 1927 was between -8.9 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -5.1 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
Day of death March 15, 1979
The temperature on March 15, 1979 was between 0.6 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
Day of cremation March 19, 1979
The temperature on March 19, 1979 was between -1 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
June 9 » The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
September 29 » The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
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